The Usual Suspects (1995) Review
The Usual Suspects (1995) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A confession improvised from the noticeboard behind the detective's head. The twist survives knowing it, which is the only test that matters.
Gabriel Byrne played Tom Reagan in Miller’s Crossing, a man whose motives the film never explains, and it is among the most withholding lead performances in American cinema.
The Usual Suspects gave him Keaton, and Excalibur gave him Uther Pendragon in his first significant film.
In Treatment on television won him a Golden Globe, and he has written two memoirs, taught before acting, and been outspoken about the Irish industrial schools.
Benicio del ToroThe Usual Suspects (1995) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A confession improvised from the noticeboard behind the detective's head. The twist survives knowing it, which is the only test that matters.
Desmond HarringtonGhost Ship (2002) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A salvage crew boards a liner missing since 1962. The first twenty seconds are among the best in modern horror and the remaining eighty minutes cannot follow them.
Alex WolffToni Collette as a mother whose family unravels after her own mother's death. Hereditary is Ari Aster's 2018 American indie horror and the director's debut feature.
Albert FinneyCoens' 1990 Prohibition-era gangster film. Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan.
Brad PittBrad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up.
Ciaran HindsNicholas Clay plays Lancelot. What makes the film unusual is that Boorman shoots the legend as the legend instead of as a historical drama.
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